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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

Full Fathom Five thy Father Lies

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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FULL fathom five thy father lies;

Of his bones are coral made;

Those are pearls that were his eyes;

Nothing of him that doth fade,

But doth suffer a sea-change

Into something rich and strange.

Sea-nymphs hourly sing his knell:

Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.

Burden.—Ding-dong.